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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about COPD,
top three natural ways (wheezing)
to improve emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Plus, we're doin' a giveaway.
- A giveaway?
- Yeah.
- Nothing new to us Bob.
- That's right, we're givin' away stuff all this year
and today we're starting
the giveaway contest for The Breather,
which is one of the solutions today for COPD.
Which is, by the way, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- Right.
- And we're gonna talk a little more about that,
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- So they can win a Breather?
- They can win a Breather.
- Okay. - We're giving away
five of 'em.
- Five of 'em okay good deal. - So now we're generous.
Well the company's generous we should say.
So, there's several types of
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- Sure.
- And two of the most common ones
are chronic bronchitis,
- Yep.
- In which you're gonna have airways are getting smaller
and there's swelling and mucous buildup.
And then there's emphysema.
Now in emphysema there's actually destruction going on.
- Okay. - So
you got the pipes.
You got the pipe going one from the big pipe,
to a smaller pipe, to smaller pipes.
- He's talking about the lungs.
- The lungs, and then at the end of the pipes
you got little balloons and they're filled with air.
And that's where the destruction happens in emphysema.
- Right.
- Once they're destroyed, they can't come back.
- Okay.
- But you can prevent further ones
from being destroyed
- Right.
- And you can prevent things,
and you can also improve things slightly.
- Sure.
- So that's what we're gonna talk about today.
So there's 24 million Americans
who are suffering from this, unfortunately.
- Sure. - This coughing,
this wheezing and mucus and chest tightness.
Smoking by far is the number-one cause.
- Sure, that makes sense.
- But air pollution also plays a big role,
- Mm.
- and so does secondhand smoke.
- Sure, - Actually you know,
which are kind
of the same thing. - Right, right.
It just depends on where you
live or who you live with.
So, I think for many of the people who have it,
they just like,
they got some small goals that they maybe wanna accomplish.
They wanna get back their life.
They wanna be able to walk their dog.
- Sure.
- They wanna be able to go to get the mail.
They wanna be able to play with their grandchildren.
- Right.
- And that's what this can help with.
If you start some of this stuff,
generally you're gonna start
to feel better within a quick time,
y'know, two to four weeks, so--
- And what we're talking about specifically
is exercising the lungs
so that you could become more active
with less symptoms using The Breather.
- Right.
And you've skipped to number two, why don't we do that.
- Oh, sorry. - That's all right.
Well we'll do number one later.
Number two, yes you can actually,
you wanna build up the breathing muscles.
So, you wanna build up
the inspiratory and expiratory muscles
and it's like lifting weights for your lungs.
- Right.
I mean as therapists,
it just makes sense to me if
you wanna strengthen a muscle you have to exercise.
You're not gonna do it by drinking some magic fluid.
- Right, or taking a medicine.
- Right.
And this by the way does help people with asthma.
It helps make their inhalers work better.
- Sure.
- And they're also talking
about using it for athletes now.
- Right.
- That's how much it's having an effect.
This is the Breather, it was developed by the,
you wanna show it here?
- Oh, sure!
- This is The Breather.
It was developed by a respiratory therapist
who had 38 years of experience.
They've actually been selling a similar model like this.
They've sold over a million
of them since the best selling model,
- Sure.
- But they've modified it now to even be better.
- Sure. - The mouthpiece
and stuff like that.
And so you're getting the best of both worlds here now.
You're getting a device that works
and also it's also, it's comfortable to use.
- Right, yeah, but that was the modification,
made it easier to use.
- So you can see it's got numbers on the dial here.
So for inhaling
you can actually set it between one and six, the resistance.
- Mm-hmm.
And exhaling, you can just set it up
for between one and five.
- Right.
- And thing is about this,
you don't need to watch us doing this.
They have fantastic videos on the--
- They have people
that are professionals that do videos.
We're not really-- - Right.
- We're the amateurs, so.
(laughing)
- So, when you're using this, you're gonna go ahead
and you just have to use it twice a day.
You can be non-mobile.
I mean, you could do it from a chair.
- Right.
- You can have oxygen on.
- Sure.
- I mean it's for everybody.
And you wanna do it two times a day,
and you're gonna do two sets of 10.
And every set, or every rep is an in and an out.
- So you're blowing,
in and out. - Breathe out
and in is counted as one.
- [Both] 10.
- Rest a little bit.
- [Both] Do another ten.
- Yeah.
- And then repeat that later in the day.
- Right, sure.
- Couple things you don't wanna be puffing out
with your mouth.
- And you wanna be about seventy percent effort or so.
You don't wanna be putting too much in, so.
- Alright, by the way if you used the link below you
get a twenty percent discount.
By the way, you can also sign up for the contest snope
to get a free one.
- Right, so.
- They're not that expensive anyways.
- No, they aren't.
They aren't.
So--
- I mean you wanna just do one here, bud?
- Sure, so.
- I'll show them this, did we talk about,
let the stomach go out right to--
- Right, it's diaphragmatic breathing when
you do this and they go into that also,
when they're talking about,
- Sure.
- Using the device.
So, breathe in.
(sharp inhale)
- Now don't puff the cheeks out Brad, I know how you
like to do that, so.
(sharp exhaling) Gotta watch you every minute.
Yeah don't do that. - That's right.
- So, that's the number one way to go ahead and prove
it with COPD.
And they've proven that it works out quite well,
you're gonna feel better within a couple weeks.
Start doing those things that you want to do.
- The second one is actually,
I was just reading this book,
it's called How Not to Die, what a title, huh?
- Yeah. (laughing)
- And it's by
I'm gonna read it off the book here.
Michael Greger, MD.
And I'll tell you this thing is really
highly referenced, Brad.
There's like, every chapter has sixty-five to seventy
references of studies that he's looked at.
- Sure, yeah.
- I mean, this guy has dedicated his life to this,
- Mm-hmm.
- And basically, in a nutshell, when you're
talking about COPD,
you wanna eat more fruits and vegetables.
- Sure.
- It has anti-inflammatory foods,
and they've done studies, they've showed that plant-based
diets can actually decrease the progression of COPD,
and maybe even improve it a little bit.
So it's got a lot of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory
nature of fruits and vegetables,
- That help this, so. - Sure.
We had the gentleman on that did,
- Oz.
- Yeah, it was vet-eater vegetarian and he have,
- He had asthma when he was a child and he no longer
had asthma, do you remember that?
- Right, yup.
- He never suffered,
he no longer suffered. - Great success.
- I mean, I know it's asking a lot to change over.
But when you're feeling really terrible it's pretty
easy to maybe be motivated to change over.
- Sure, yep.
- So, and the third thing, I hate to say it,
we're gonna have to nag a little bit.
- What.
- You gotta stop smoking.
- Oh.
- I mean that's the third natural way to improve
emphysemic chronic bronchitis.
- Right.
- You gotta stop the smoking, so.
- Right, well.
- Alright, remember Brad and I can fix
just about anything--
- Except for.
- A broken heart.
But we're working on it.
- Right, I'm not sure if this is gonna help with the--
- It's gonna help cardio.
- Well, okay. - You tell 'em.
- We'll put that in part of the formula.
- Alright.
- Thank you. - Thanks for watching.